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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Marple, England, United Kingdom

The Marketing Director role was created when I joined the board of directors in January 2023. As Marple Golf Club is a member run club, the role is voluntary and I manage this role in my spare time away from my director role at Sammon Media. Before accepting the role, I knew the club logo/crest was in need of modernising to attract more corporate golf days and sponsorship, I set this as a priority.My first year saw the emergence of a new logo/crest - this was a lengthy process but backed by the board we proposed several logos to the membership and then took the best three designs to a vote. As a result, we now have a modern looking logo/crest which has been a real hit with the membership. Our club professional has never sold so many crested tops and polo shirts.This new crest then enabled me to attract Manchester City Football Club Former Players Association and the High Sheriff of Greater Manchester to hold their golf days at Marple. These are now annual occasions for both and they are getting bigger, brighter and better every year.In 2024 I went externally to attract sponsorship for the golf club, I developed a package which resulted in attracting a muti-million pound company called McCarthy Stone to sign up for a three year deal to sponsor the golf club. I tailored a package that suited McCarthy Stone and the deal has resulted in a five figure sum for the golf club. As Marple Golf Club is the perfect demographic for McCarthy Stone, they are now looking to broaden this strategy to other areas of the UK.

Cheshire

Worked across a range of print, digital and TV titles and penning copy for corporate clients.Part of the three person judging panel on the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2015 - Green Car of the Year.UK Car of the Year Judge - 2015.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Liverpool

I joined The Auto Network (TAN) as Head of Content. That role consists of heading up askaprice.com, oneswoop.com and TAN's flagship motoring magazine, MotorTorque.com. As editor of MotorTorque, I alongside my team relaunched the site into one of the best looking motoring sites in the UK. Two months later, we followed the site relaunch by producing the first ever offline issue of MotorTorque. We distributed 30,000 copies to commuters in London as a 'Freemium' product. These were distributed in designated hot spots that tallied with our research and reader base for the magazine.

I managed the road test department and subbed all copy that was submitted by the rest of the team with regards to new cars. I booked cars in and kept the long-term fleet updated. I used Twitter as a tool to get my 1,000 plus followers interested in and talking about the Parkers brand as a quick and easy of getting people to interact with the brand. I tweeted on car reviews and news stories. I also took pictures of test cars and interact edwith fellow ‘Twits’ about motoring topics and gave out car advice. I measured the relevance of my tweets through the application called Klout.Setting up the Parkers Facebook page was an important step for Parkers, as we wanted to broaden our digital scope. With over 1,000 ‘likes’ we kept our fans entertained by giving them competitions including, guess the car?

Contributed to: Auto Express, Fleet Directory, The Green Car Website, Road Test Reports, Total Impreza, Total Evolution, Total Nissan, The Van Website, Independent Motoring News, Driversknow.co.ukHeld PR roles with Colin McRae Motorsport Vision, RX Racing, Keith Cronin (Double British Rally Champion) and gave media training to junior drivers eligible on the Scottish Rally Championship. I also had a 30-minute motoring show on Sunny Govan Radio (Glasgow) from January 2008 to December 2008. I am a published author. My first book; Kris Meeke, Intercontinental Rally Champion, (Kris is the first British competitor to win this series) was published on August 3 2010 by Veloce Publishing.Book Link:www.veloce.co.uk/shop/products/productDetail.php?prod_id=V4071&prod_group=Motorsport&

London, United Kingdom

Worked on Britain’s best selling car weekly for two years. My duties included writing news stories, road tests, first drives and product reviews. Not only did I drive cars I also tested products. I also appeared in numerous Auto Express videos.Video Links: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/kia/37142/kia-factory-visithttp://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/37224/gadget-video

London, United Kingdom

Worked for two years on the three titles above, a weekly (Fleet Week), monthly (Fleet Management) and a bi-monthly (What Van? Fleet). My duties included writing news stories and feature articles to tight deadlines using Microsoft Word and on page using QuarkXPress. I also attended news conferences and car launches representing the magazines above.

Media Studies Ba (Hons), Journalism

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